[IC] ePBT Grand Tour - GB is up!

[fedemito]

Group buy starts February 25, 2021!


Hello, I’m Federico from Italy. Welcome to the Interest Check for Grand Tour!




Rama U80-A by rama.works
Render by Raz


Design and inspiration
Inspired from a poster (I love it) that my best friends gave to me for my birthday a couple of years ago.


The poster itself is from NASA/JPL.
The Grand Tour is the route the Voyager 2 spacecraft took to visit all four outer planets. It's a flight plan that's possible every 175 years for the alignment of the outer planets of our solar system.

My friend Alessandro Maranta worked on the novelties design and he made a great job.

Kits


Base


Novelties


Spacebars


40s


Ergo



Deskmats

Designed by Raz

Light

Dark

Solar System Light

Solar System Dark

Solar System Light Monochrome

Solar System Dark Monochrome






Renders

Full Album!
Disclaimer: note that the images are of 3D renders and are for illustration purposes only. The final colors may differ slightly.


Haus by Hand Engineering (render by me)







TGR Alice (render by Raz)





Rama M60 (render by me)






J-02 by Proto[Typist] Keyboards (render by me)





Rama U80-A Soya (render by me)









Manufacturer

ePBT dyesub pbt

Vendors


- EU: Candykeys
- CA: Ashkeebs
- Asia: Thicthock
- China: Kbdfans
- South America: Fancycustoms
- Oceania: Switchkeys
- US: MKUltra Corporation


Collaborations


I'm very happy to announce some collaborations! I will be working for some artisan keycaps with:
- Thok
- Artkey


I will be working for some cables with:
- NerdCables


IC Form

Form

Thanks

Many thanks to the following for your help and support during the design of this set:

Alessandro Maranta for the novelties drawing
Raz for the help with blender and for the beatiful renders.
Kerasan for his support and ideas
Click Clack Club group on telegram for the feedback
I have to thank konstantin, NoPunIn10Did, 40s discord and Keycap Designers discord for the help with kitting.



Next Steps


- Getting prices


Updates

- 08/17: Updated kit renders to new base color
- 09/29: Added manufacturer
- 10/05: Added vendors, collaborations and new renders. Ic form updated with new renders
- 10/06 Added oceania vendor
- 10/10: Added renders
- 10/13: Added US vendor
- Small update on samples,kitting and a new collaboration
- 01/19/21 announced gb date and new kitting
- 02/02/21 Deskmats

Old renders


Kit renders by me
Pizza keyboard, render by Raz (old base color)



Contacts

- Clicky Clack Club Discord
- Instagram

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[VagueOrigin]

Love the novelties, im in!

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[Agilr]

This is so fun with the colourful legends, you know I'm down!

Speaking of manu, this would probably be great through infinikey given their history with similar coloured sets (see: Infinikey Pastel).

Best of luck with the IC!

[yui_]

as somebody who's loved space since i was very young, this set looks great! it's made me want to go out and buy the poster to match.

i personally think this set would look really good in pbt, would make it a lot more accessible too. (there's also no reverse dyesub needed which could have limited pbt options if present.)

glwic!!

[GraffitiDecos]

Very nice.

Can you tell us more about PIZZA keyboard??

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[yoot]

I love the look of only the legends of the mods being colored!

[GrimmOmen]

Like it so far; the design is really clean and straightforward.

Biggest concern is the legibility of yellow-on-white legends for the shift keys. It kind of works on the novelty, where there's enough yellow to visually process, but it's much harder to pick up on the thin font and lines of the mods. Maybe swap it out for another color?

[Bachoo]

I'm always a sucker for the space aesthetic, this set is exceedingly classy and minimal.  I'd recommend maybe reaching out to cannonkeys and seeing if they can work with you with CC.

[woyaodapian]

nice nice nice!

[PizzaKeyboards]

Nice set, on other occasions I would have recommended going with GMK but given the latest controversy and all the delays I would recommend infinitekey

[PizzaKeyboards]

Very nice.

Can you tell us more about PIZZA keyboard??

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Pizza Keyboards is our first keeb, it will be a 65% Top mount, all other features will be detected by mid September with the interest check.

[macomac]

This looks like a lot of fun! very interested

[scrps]

i'd recommend doing r4 >< and r3 /| instead of r4 /| and r3 #~
looks good glwic

[EpicN]

Really nice theme and clean aesthetic. GLWIC

[break]

Very clean, and the novelties are lovely. I'm looking forward to more.

[kai0]

Will be keeping my eye on this one.

[GaNeBaL]

looks interesting. would work well with pbt

[SpeakingSilence]

Love everything about this. The inspiration artwork is gorgeous. The color scheme of the set and the space novelties are clean but fun. Really well done.

[kidpid]

Reminds me of GMK Fro.Yo.

[VagueOrigin]

Very nice.

Can you tell us more about PIZZA keyboard??

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Pizza Keyboards is our first keeb, it will be a 65% Top mount, all other features will be detected by mid September with the interest check.

It looks clean, can't wait!

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[Dazon]

oh, im SO SO in!!! please do pbt, gmk prices yuck

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[badbusinessman]

Nice set, I have this poster and the rest of the set as well. In!

[gasp]

Looks incredible!

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[senryo]

very interested!

[sirieous]

Looks really fun and cute!

[nasp]

Cool 

[asciisii]

I like this.

[Steve Laroo]

Any plans on adding a 40s kit to this or at least a 1.25u Tab to the base (would love to see this trend in more base kits)?

Regardless, awesome set, good luck going forward.

[IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES]

Cool 

This was the person I wanted to see
I'm ready to have both of these sets

[Ashardalon]

This is a beautiful set, you have my support all the way! Love the theme, the novelties, and the colours.

[NathanCVII]

Would love this set on any form of PBT.

[largerthanlife]

This set looks amazing! I would love to see a deskmat.

[kwhilden]

Very interested, and I love your story around the set.  The four planets makes this a must-buy for a 65% board. 

The only thing missing is a novelty with an image of Voyager 2 itself.  Perhaps as a brass artisan?  It's a cool looking spacecraft that is very recognizable. 

The Gold Record with sounds from Earth, compiled by Carl Sagan, would also be really cool. 

[nettik]

Cute set! Although in the first render, it looks like the ESC key is the wrong color as it's green instead of red? Which color is it supposed to be?

 I hope you'll add a 40s kit, as well as scooped F and J keys! The novelties are very cute, although it seems to be geared towards only 65% keyboards. I'd love to see the planets as novelties for the bottom row too.

Also very interested in the PizzaKeyboard!

[Owl-]

capslock novelty, please. Move one of the ship novelty over or something else like the four outer planets on the capslock.

[//gainsborough]

capslock novelty, please. Move one of the ship novelty over or something else like the four outer planets on the capslock.

Or one of the planets with a tail like in the poster!  (more like a dot with a different colored tail)

[kiwoli]

novelties are fire, will keep an eye on this, interested in what the base colour will be.

[santela]

I think PBT dyesub will do.

But more importantly, can I get more info on that Pizza Keyboard? All 65% interest me.

[Suavity]

me gusta

[Eddie_Caps]

Really digging this! count me in

[fabijolo]

Absolutely lovely!

[Hyphen]

Those are gorgeous novelties!

[Kerasan]

thank you for mentioning me, I can't wait to support this project 

[dibkib]

I really like the novelties!

[i luv chuletas]

Love the theme on this.

PLEASE considering adding a kit for 40's support. This set would look so good on so many of the 40's kit it'd be illegal not to have.

More than happy to provide key.. uhm, keys, for that area.

Thanks!

[davisthegreat]

love the inspiration would like to see more beige base color that match the background of the poster but idk if there would be enough  contrast for that and the yellow legends

[kirstenchaitea]

love the inspiration would like to see more beige base color that match the background of the poster but idk if there would be enough  contrast for that and the yellow legends

+1 for more of an off-white, cream base color. Would love to see this on a more retro looking profile rather than GMK. like DSA or KAT

[fedemito]

Base color update

Hello there!
Thank you all for your interest and advice, right now I'm trying to figure out what you like best (about kitting,novelties and manufacturer).

Grand Tour will be Cherry profile, so no KAT or SA sorry.

Meanwhile (seeing the comments and responses to the form) there seems to be a request to darken the base color a little.
I've made the same render with a more creamish color.

Left is old, right is new



I think the new color is more suitable and i like it better.
In the next days i will update renders.

My intention is to draw inspiration from the poster, not to have a perfect match. Not to mention that having the same colors on plastic is virtually impossible.

[jeniverre]

Interested 😊

[Shutter_Shock]

This is beautiful. I love it. Simple but fun. I think it would lend itself well to pbt since it's darker colored legends on a light base. Also, I don't have any pbt keycaps, and I've spent way too much on GMK sets this year, so I wouldn't complain about the lower cost of pbt. Interested either way though! I personally liked the lighter base color, but I don't dislike the new, creamier color. Still looks great!